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Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

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See if this gets through, my WiFi got flaky, which seems like it cause some 
issue with imap between Thunderbird and Comcast. Thunderbird claims the 
message was sent twice, but I never got a copy in my inbox. 

Here we go again, from the webmail this time. ;) 



On 3/22/2016 11:20 AM, Russell Gadd wrote: 



Thanks for the export point which I have now used. However it doesn't 
solve the problem. 

I experimented by adding the following line into ~/.bash_profile, 
~/.profile and ~/.bashrc: 
echo "This is <scriptname>" &>>/tmp/out.txt 

Neither of the profile files triggered the output, nor did .bashrc 
until I manually opened a Mate terminal from the desktop. So it 
appears that the profile files do not get invoked at any time. 

I've even tried changing the PATH which is set at the top of 
/etc/profile, but this doesn't work either, so it looks like profile 
files are ignored altogether. 



I did a search using terms that seemed like likely suspects if I expected the login shell stuff to get 
sourced when a display manager is handling the login instead of the shell. 

The first page of results I got where some combination of old, incomplete, and/or GDM specific. 
Even in the GDM case, I'm not sure if the documentation is correct for current versions of GDM 
since I have not used GDM for a long time. 

Sourcing '~/.profile' when the shell is not your login was more of a Redhat thing that other 
distributions may or may not do. 

I did see some bug reports which would probably have some relevant information in the 
responses. 

Create '~/.xprofile' and put your export commands and extra non-desktop specific stuff you 
always want to run there. 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xprofile 

Later, Seeker 

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User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 19:20 +0100
  Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-03-21 19:30 +0100
  Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2016-03-22 03:40 +0100
    Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 19:40 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-03-22 20:00 +0100
        Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 23:50 +0100
          Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-03-23 03:50 +0100
          Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-03-24 01:30 +0100
            Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-03-24 01:40 +0100
            Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-24 09:30 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-03-22 21:20 +0100
        Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Russell Gadd <russ.mail.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 23:50 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-03-22 22:10 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-03-22 22:30 +0100
      Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script seeker5528@comcast.net - 2016-03-22 22:50 +0100
        Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-03-23 00:00 +0100

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